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North Region has highest rise of construction prices in September

Released today by the IBGE, the National Index of Civil Construction - SINAPI changed 0.45%, standing slightly above the August rate (0.36%). Among the regions, the North registered the highest rise this month: 0.79%. According to Augusto Oliveira, manager of the survey, the regional result was mainly...

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Construction costs grow 1.99% in January, greatest rise since 2013

Construction materials increased 2.96%, especially steel, wood and PVC - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency The National Index of Civil Construction (Sinapi), released today (9) by the IBGE, rose 1.99% in January compared to December and reached the highest rate in the series with exemption in the...

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Transportation increases in October and reduces pace of fall of services sector

According to the Monthly Survey of Services, released today by the IBGE, the segment of Transportation and mailing increased 8.4% in October compared with the same month in 2016 and reduced the pace of fall of the services sector, which stayed at 0.3%. The change was -0.8% in relation to September, whereas...

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Industrial prices begin 2021 rising 3.36% in January

Mining sector registered the highest rise and influence on the industrial prices in January - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Industrial prices rose 3.36% in January 2021 over December 2020. The rate is quite higher than that recorded between November and December (0.39%), and it represents...

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Red tariff flag in electricity accelerates inflation in October

Influenced by the average increase of 3.28% in electricity, inflation rose from 0.16% in September to 0.42% in October. The introduction of the red tariff flag this month contributed to accelerate the Extended National Consumer Price Index - IPCA, released this morning by the IBGE. On the other hand,...

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Car production contributes to recovery of industry in 2017

Industry closed Q3 2017 with an increase of 1.6% in its national output, mainly due to the increased production of motor vehicles. The cumulative increase in 2017 now amounts to 14.8%; against the result of September 2016, industrial output records an increase of 20.9%. There was increase of 0.1% in...

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Trade loses 11% of its companies and 4.4% of the workers in five years

In 2019, retail employed 74.2% of the 10.2 million workers in commercial activities - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency Between 2010 and 2019, trade lost 177.3 thousand companies (-11%), 466.1 thousand workers (-4.4%) and 140.6 thousand shops (-8.1%). Retail, responsible for 74.2% of the persons...

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Despite emergency benefits, 1 out of every 4 Brazilians were living in poverty in 2020

Children up to 14 years of age have the highest poverty and extreme poverty rates - Photo: Tânia Rego/Brazil Agency. About 12 million persons lived in extreme poverty in Brazil in 2020, that is, on less than R$155 reais a month, and more than 50 million, 1 out of every 4 Brazilians were living in poverty,...

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Due to reduced airfare prices, inflation preview hits lowest result in June since 2006

Airfare prices fell by 26.08% in June - Photo: Marcello Casal Jr/Agência Brasil Affected by the result of airfare prices (-26,08%), June's inflation preview was of 0.02%, the lowest for a month of June since 2006, when the rate was -0.15%. Transportation (-0.71%) accounted for the main negative figure,...

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SCN - 2021 System of National Accounts: Brazil

The System of National Accounts - SNA presents information on the generation, distribution and use of income in Brazil. There is also data on accumulation of assets, financial assets and on the relations between the domestic economy and the rest of the world. The results now released bring the Supply...

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Industry prices hits the third biggest drop since 2013

Food industry contributes to the IPP fall in July - Photo: Eduardo Peret/IBGE News Agency The drop in exports and Real appreciation against the Dollar made domestic industrial prices drop again. That is what shows us the Producer Price Index (IPP) of July, which shrank 1.24% over the previous month,...

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Census National Test reaches Quilombola Community in Paraty (RJ) (3)

The IBGE is carrying out today (24) the 2022 Census National Test in the Quilombo of Campinho da Independência, in Paraty, in the south of the state of Rio de Janeiro. After intensive consultation work with quilombola leaders, the test will evaluate specific sanitary protocols, standards of conduct and...

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Services sector generates more than 200 thousand jobs in 2019

Cargo transportation is the activity that generates more revenue in the services sector - Photo: Helena Pontes/IBGE News Agency The number of employed persons in the services sector increased 2.1% in 2019, totaling 12.8 million persons 269.9 thousand more persons than in 2018. Despite the increase of...

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Industrial production down by 0.7% in February, following nine months of increase

Industrial production drops in 14 of the 26 subsectors surveyed - Photo: Camila Domingues/Piratini Palace National industrial production recorded a 0.7% decrease in February from the previous month, interrupting a sequence of nine months of increase. the sector is now 13.6% below the record level reached...

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Women continue ahead of men in caretaking and household chores

In 2017, women continued to work 20.9 hours per week in household chores and in caretaking, almost twice as the 10.8 hours spent by men. Of the 88.2 million women aged 14 or over, 92.6% did these two activities last year, a slight increase compared to the 90.6% result in 2016. The proportion of men increased...

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Costs of civil construction rise 0.11% in May, lowest rate since November 2016

Despite the deceleration, costs of civil construction rose 0.11% in May - Photo: Licia Rubinstein/IBGE News Agency Released today by the IBGE, the National Index of Civil Construction - Sinapi rose 0.11% in May, a result below the rate of 0.34% in April. This was the lowest rate since November 2016,...

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Unemployment rises to 12.2% and hits 12.9 million in Q1 2020

More than 1,2 million persons were in search of a job in Brazil in the first quarter of 2020 - Photo: Dênio Simões/Brasília Local Branch The unemployment rate increased to 12.2% in the first quarter this year, an increase of 1.3 percentage points (p.p) in comparison with the last quarter of 2019, according...

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Industrial production falls 0.4% in September and closes Q3 with 1.1% decrease

Sector of food products shrank 1.3% in September - Photo: Ari Dias / AEN-PR Industrial production fell 0.4 from August to September. It is the fourth drop in a row, accumulating a loss of 2.6% in the period. As a result, the industry stands 3.2% below the level of February 2020, in the pre-pandemic scenario,...

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IBGE depicts natural cover of Brazilian biomes from 2000 to 2018

Deforested area in the Amazon Biome, in the state of Rondônia - Photo: Fernando Peres Dias/IBGE Collection The Brazilian biomes lost nearly 500 thousand km² of natural cover: from 5.9 million km², in 2000, to 5.4km² in 2018. The greatest reduction of native area took place in the Amazon, which shrank...

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Revision of GDP 2016 points to a decrease of 3.3% against previous year

In its consolidated result, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 2016 reached R$ 6.267 trillion and its decrease in volume against 2015 was revised from 3.5% to 3.3%, thus confirming downward trend for the second year in a row (in 2015, there was a change of -3.5%). Per capita GDP was R$ 30,548, with...